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Apocrypha Definition


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Apocrypha
plural noun
    1. Those books of the Bible included in the ancient Greek and Latin versions of the Old Testament but not in the Hebrew version, and which are excluded from modern Protestant Bibles but included in Roman Catholic and Orthodox Bibles. Compare Pseudepigrapha.
Etymology: 14c: from Greek apocryphos hidden.



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